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Do Something You've Never Done Before Challenge
Today I went to my local Starbucks and I'm about to order, when I see these little packets of instant. I can't have caffeine, not unless I want to levitate, so I get decaf and pretend really hard. But even though I don't drink caffeinated coffee, the idea of instant sends me back to my childhood when my Italian grandmother (who made espresso in a ( Read more... ) -
Digging for Hamsters
Last year, when littlest was seven, she liked to dig holes. We happen to have an area in our yard conducive to this. So she'd go out there in her rain boots and gardening gloves, with a shovel bigger than she was, and dig like there was no tomorrow. One day I asked what she was digging for, and she replied, "Hamsters ( Read more... ) -
How Little Women Changed My Life
When I was a little kid, I didn't much like to read. Well, I guess I shouldn't say "didn't like". That would indicate I had enough feelings on the matter to form an opinion. It would be more accurate to say I felt about reading the way I felt about doing math equations or making the bed. It was a necessary part of my day. When my aunt gave me ( Read more... ) -
Out of the Mist
What do a broken chip clip, an ancient jelly bean, a cracked plastic vampire bat (complete with fangs of doom), purple beads from Disneyland, a tape measure, and an empty tube of Chapstick have in common? Littlest. She's like the tooth fairy, only instead of collecting other people's teeth, she collects all the little things they try to throw ( Read more... ) -
I am still alive...
And I have ten minutes left of alone time. So what do I want to do more than anything with my alone time? Talk to myself apparently. But I am doing it in good cheer ( Read more... ) -
Update on the ruined surprise...
I don't think the surprise is ruined after all. Irish was an actor for a time but he couldn't be this good. Maybe he's torturing me. Anyway, the golf game that's supposed to last four hours on Saturday? The one that's supposed to buy me the time I need to get everything done? He's telling me he can be home early ( Read more... ) -
Who am I in the summertime?
It's summer. The June gloom is gone and the hot, hot sun is making up for lost time. The beaches are still cool, though, and windy, so we have to find things to do inland. We are off to a good start. As I write this, Middles is dragging Littlest around the floor on a blanket and they are falling down a lot and giggling. We are planting some ( Read more... ) -
Surprise Ruined (maybe)
I'm planning a surprise 50th birthday party for my husband. And about an hour ago, I pulled up Evite to check on the attendance and I hear a huge crash in the kitchen, and Middles yells that she's cut herself. So I fling my laptop on the table and rush into the kitchen and it turns out the cut isn't so bad. But I just discovered that on his way ( Read more... ) -
Blissful Sunday
Five random things:
1. Irish just finished reading the George Martin series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Or should I say, he finished reading book four, which was the last one written. There are 3 left in the series that Martin started in 1996. Fans have been upset (understatement) that he keeps missing his deadlines, and may in fact die before ( Read more... ) -
Congratulations!
Going out to my friend soniag for the sale of her debut YA novel, The Revenant! All I have to say about that is:
Whoooooooooooooop!!!